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- Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Leaping Poetry is Robert Bly's testament to the singular importance of the artistic leap that bridges the gap between conscious and unconscious thought in any great work of art; the process that Bly refers to as “riding on dragons.” Originally published in 1972 in Bly's literary journal The Seventies, Leaping Poetry is part anthology and part commentary, wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of “leaping” as found in the works of poets from around the world, including Federico Garcia Lorca, Chu Yuan, Tomas Tranströmer, and Allen Ginsberg, among others, while also outlining the basic principles that shape his own poetry. Bly seeks the use of quick, free association of the known and the unknown-the innate animal and rational cognition-which, he maintains, have been kept apart in the development of Western religious, intellectual, and literary thought.
Table of Contents
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- Looking for Dragon Smoke
- pp. 1-7
- Pequeño poema infinito
- pp. 10-12
- Little Infinite Poem
- pp. 11-13
- Spanish Leaping
- pp. 17-22
- Poema para ser leído y cantado
- pp. 24-27
- Tengo un miedo terrible . . .
- pp. 28-31
- The Ruined Street
- pp. 32-4735
- Wild Association
- pp. 40-42
- Iglesia abandonada
- pp. 44-47
- Something like a
- pp. 54-55
- Poetry of Steady Light
- pp. 60-62
- Out in the Open
- pp. 73-75
- The Three Brains
- pp. 76-85
- Ciudad sin sueño
- pp. 86-91
- Surrealism, Rilke, and Listening
- pp. 92-94
- from Sonnets to Orpheus
- pp. 95-98
- Home Grown Poems
- p. 99
- Prosepoem to Hart Crane
- p. 101
- from The Car Crash Poem
- pp. 102-103
- Repose of Rivers
- pp. 106-107
- Winter Scene
- p. 108
- from Sleepers Joining Hands
- pp. 109-110
- Two Years Later
- p. 111
- Crazy Dog Events
- p. 112
- Threads IX
- p. 113
- The Way West Underground
- pp. 115-116
- from The Newcastle Poem
- pp. 117-120
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 121-122
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822978220
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960034
MARC Record
OCLC
835768793
Pages
134
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No